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Title: "Q&A: Common MySQL Development Mistakes"
Date: 2016-12-09 09:11:00
Categories: [data base]
tags: [mysql, mariadb, percona]
Authors: sedlav
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Bill Karwin provides a guide on "How to Avoid Common (but Deadly) MySQL Development Mistake". Here are some of the questions answered by Bill Karwin:

* What are the performance drawbacks of prepared statements?
* What about using fixed length text fields rather than VARCHARs?
* Advice on fixing some of the datatype or character set problems?

[Link](http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2014/03/07/mysql-development-mistakes/)
